Modesto police investigating meat robbery

Police are looking for two men involved in the armed robbery of 15 pounds of raw meat from a southeast Modesto market on Thursday.

A Latino man and a non-Latino white man, both in their 20s, went into Angelita’s Carniceria Market on Yosemite Avenue around 2 p.m. and ordered 15 pounds of two types of meat, said Modesto police spokeswoman Heather Graves.

When the clerk put the meat on the counter, Graves said the Latino man pulled out a gun and grabbed the meat.

Both men ran from the store and were last seen fleeing in a silver four-door sedan.

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